I just started my own server (with some help from the imms at a server, not sure if they'd like me to mention them or not ) and for the most part i've got it pretty well figure out. I have a few problems though:

1. areas arent saving. After switching to SmaugFUSS 1.9, the pfiles are finally saving, but when i create a new area (vassign then savearea in case i did it wrong) it says its saving but the file doesnt appear, and the area is gone at next restart of server.

What client are you using? If I recall right (been awhile) but this is a result of how the \r\n or \n\r are sent to the client. And if I recall right that is from doing \n\r (It starts a new line and then returns to the position it was at) Try another client or make sure its sending it as \r\n

It is a putty thing and it using \n\r in some places when it needs to be using \r\n or something lol it's been ages since i had to mess with it. If I remember right when you do a copyover/hotboot it should display it correctly in putty (The edited stuff that is)

I would advise checking the line "You enter the city" and make sure it is sending \r\n instead of \n\r.

Even stock smaugfuss still has the editor issue. As I said it does fix itself if you save the file and hotboot etc... you will run into the problem anytime you use the smaug editor for helps/descriptions/etc... You can always take a look at how LoP handles it if you want and use what you need to.

Im back to using PuTTY only. Same problem, but I can see what i type now anyway . Yeah i was using windows telnet, but it worked fine on v 1.4 so i figured itd be fine on 1.9 too. oh well ill just use hotboot after changing descriptions.

I'm running out of ideas for the area saves *sigh*. I used the 'attrib' command with command prompt to remove the system and read only tags on all files in my smaugfuss folder, but still no luck. I do have a faint grasp of whats wrong, but no way to fix it.

Im fairly positive its just not creating the .are file. I see none in the area folder, and i have successfully modified and saved the existing areas. I searched the bugfixes and found nothing like that. If you need me to post a section of code from my files or something I'll be happy to do so. Its just standard 1.9 though, downloaded from this site even.

If you were on a linux system I'd say the directory just didn't have the right permissions to allow the process to save the files there. That may be the case with Vista too. I've only had limited exposure to it ( thank God ) but it might help to know what directory you put your smaugfuss in.

*edit* topic isnt really priority for now, im just using areaeditor to make the area file, then modify it from there. preexisting area files still save. Still would like to know whats wrong, cuz making area files online would be handy. Just dont stress yourself to hard to answer the problem though, i can live without